Companies are beginning to understand that great design incites an emotional connection. This doesn’t occur at the enterprise level, but in the hearts of each individual user. Changing a 100+…
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For the past decade, Nicholas Felton has methodically captured and shared his life in a series of projects collectively known as the Feltron Annual Reports. These reports apply data visualization…
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Hear how Dixon’s adventuring and stubborn naivety has brought new vigor to her category melding practice. She’ll share how monumental change has amplified her love of exploratory making, leading her…
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Web animation has dominated conversations for the last few years. Front-end developers and interaction designers are hungry to provide more value than just arranging boxes and text on screen. Users…
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After years of successful services work, Relish Interactive set out to create their first piece of original content. A digital first franchise, The Incredible Tales of Weirdwood Manor is an…
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Developers today are exploring creative code to build something expressive and engaging. Traditionally this has been done with frameworks such as Processing and Cinder, and on the web, both Canvas…
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David will show how one small design gesture in an animation can plant the seed for a much larger-scale physical experience. Through the personal and collective journeys he has taken, he’ll prove that design…
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The web stands as a ubiquitous, pervasive platform with unmatched access for digital entertainment. As HTML5 fills the gaps between the flat, 2-dimensional experiences of old to bring flowing animations…
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Graham Churchill, Business Leader, IBM Bluemix Digital Innovation Platform Learn the art of the possible with cognitive. Hear how Watson has gone beyond Jeopardy and is now being embedded into…
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Interactive narrative hasn’t changed much in forty years – it’s still ruled by limited options and predestined outcomes. While digital RPG gameplay has become more sophisticated, the stories remain rather…
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Arcades were once an exciting meeting place for the public to see the latest innovations in game interaction. Detailed graphics, holograms, delightful combination of physical hydraulics and digital effects and…
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Agile development methods are sweeping the software industry, but reconciling UX, Agile and stakeholder demands for certainty are a struggle for many companies.
Expanding on a (in)famous “Agile doesn’t have…
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Tools help us create beautiful, usable experiences for devices. However, they can also get in the way of creativity; designers and developers sometimes spend more time thinking about process, software,…
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Responsive design, content adaptation, automatically adjustable brightness and other techniques are meant to improve the end user experience. However, those techniques take in consideration device sensors input and not you…
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The web stands as a ubiquitous, pervasive platform with unmatched access for digital entertainment. As HTML5 fills the gaps between the flat, 2-dimensional experiences of old to bring flowing animations…
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Ash will be discussing his goals as a creative person. How he dreams big and puts forth optimism, hard work, and focus to obtain his goals. He will break down how he started to teach himself how…
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Everyone can probably tell a story of a last-minute situation that jeopardizes an entire project and months of hard work. Building interactive installations means mixing and matching technologies, bridging physical…
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What would two painters improvising look like? Improv Canvas is a real-time collaborative drawing tool that preserves the personal pen or brush stroke for a visual conversation. The project transforms…
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R&D (research and development) is not something that the entertainment industry is known for. But as narrative and code collide, new forms and functions of storytelling emerge. A culture of…
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Los Angeles-based Gary Baseman explores the “beauty of the bittersweetness of life” through painting, performance, film and fashion. Current projects include a collaboration with COACH ready-to-wear for the Spring 2015…
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The current design landscape is in flux, a confluence of disciplines, practices, and open collaborations. A response to the never-ending push for something unique, this scenario forces us into never-before-tried…
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“Why does Experiential Design matter?” Within his talk, Jason answers this question by delving into the current state of affairs within the creative industry, discussing its newest and most exciting…
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The most engaging digital products encourage habits within their users, habits that hook us into coming back over and over again. Liam used the design principles of habit-forming products to analyze,…
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